Didn't realize driving trains gets you over 200 k

[thucythucy]

1. Considering an engineer on a train is responsible for the safety of hundreds

or even thousands of lives, it seems quite reasonable to me.

How much money do airline pilots earn?

Or brain surgeons?

You want to pay big bucks to people with that kind of life and death responsibility, with all the stress that entails, in order to attract the best and the brightest.

The fact that overtime is such an issue indicates to me that the authority is understaffed. Which makes sense considering how we've been underfunding mass transit now for decades. Like the spokeswoman said, it's a cost saving measure, one that potentially compromises the safety of passengers.

I'd like to see mass transit here given the same priority (and funding) it gets in Europe. Every time I come back from an EU country and have to ride American mass transit, I feel like I'm in some Third World country.